Manager, Compensation & Incentives

About this role

Own incentive compensation across Mews’ go-to-market organisation, from plan design and cost modelling to commission payouts and governance. Build a scalable, trusted compensation system that supports business priorities and provides clear earnings visibility to employees.

About the company

Mews builds a cloud property management platform that helps hotels run operations and improve guest experiences.

The team

Revenue Operations, reporting to the Director of Revenue Operations.

Stack

What you'll do

• Set incentive strategy and plan architecture across GTM roles, including measures, pay mix, accelerators and crediting rules.
• Manage commission calculations, data validation and payroll handoffs on monthly or quarterly cycles.
• Establish policies for exceptions, SPIFs, clawbacks and mid-year changes; lead compensation governance with Sales, Finance and People.
• Improve attainment and earnings visibility, and own the compensation platform roadmap.
• Model plan costs and payout distributions, assess plan effectiveness and recommend changes to leadership.
• Use AI to improve plan documentation, pay-related answers and earnings forecasts, with rule-based payout logic and output checks.

What we're looking for

• Have owned incentive compensation at a B2B SaaS company, including hands-on commission calculations and payouts.
• Have taken at least one annual compensation plan through executive approval.
• Advanced Excel and strong scenario-modelling skills.
• Hands-on experience with a commission management platform such as CaptivateIQ or Xactly.
• Able to challenge sales leadership using data, handle individual pay data discreetly and write clear plan documents.
• Demonstrated AI fluency in improving a compensation or analytics process, with checks to validate outputs before they affect pay.

Nice to have

• Experience building a compensation function from scratch.
• Experience designing incentives for customer success, account management, or partner and channel roles.
• Experience with multi-product, usage-based or payments models.
• Experience with UK, EU and US plans; working knowledge of SQL.

Benefits

• Unlimited paid holiday.
• Company share program.
• Paid parental leave: six months for primary caregivers and two months for secondary caregivers, after one year of service.
• Annual learning budget of €300, with additional budget for high performers.
• Flexible hybrid working and a work-from-anywhere policy allowing a few weeks abroad each year.
• Home-office setup budget and monthly work-from-home allowance.
• Relocation options after one year.
• Claude tokens for workflow automation.